Hours worked Wednesday 6th January 2010, 5.5
Pay received for work, £ nil
Expenditure, £ nil
Total Pay Received, £ nil
Total Expenditure, £42.75
Thursday, 7 January 2010
sub zero
BRRRRRR! I'm afraid going to the studio is still out of the question, I would get brain and finger freeze before you could say 'icicle'. It was -13.5 degrees C in Carlisle last night, -9 at 8am this morning and the weather girl said that the best we can hope for today is -3 degrees C. As my studio was originally built as a slaughterhouse, warmth was not a top design priority, and although a false ceiling has been put in and insulated with kingspan foam board it is impossible to heat effectively. The concrete floor pulls any body heat straight down through your feet, and as my snow boots died towards the end of last year and haven't been replaced with anything as effective yet it would be silly to try and work. The pretty ice patterns from Ed's studio windows that I posted a couple of days ago were on the inside of the kitchen and bathroom window this morning. When I opened the shutters in the living room to let some light in this morning I received an icy blast of air and promptly shut them again. Although it will be a little gloomy in there today, I would rather retain the heat in the house than let it fly out of our old single glazed sash windows.
I spent most of yesterday writing a series of art and craft courses for the local borough council. Hopefully I will be delivering them to groups of adults from March. These courses are provided free to anyone who cares for a child under 5 years of age, but I suspect that this isn't widely known as it seems to be a regular group of twenty something ladies who come along. I have proposed courses in ceramic bead, button and broach making, yo-yo patchwork, glass etching and sandblasting, glass fusing, mixed media collage, personal visual diary making, printing and mosaic. As Children's Services budget has been cut by £140k this year I hope that I will be able to find most of the materials I need from Free For All the arts and crafts scrap store that I help to run. I will have to buy some clay, but by concentrating on making small items, one bag should go a long way. I will encourage participants to bring along scrap fabrics and glass items to supplement the ones I can provide from my stash, and I know that I can find tile grouts and fixatives in the Community Re-paint scheme. I will just have to wait and see which courses are selected to go ahead now. I am also going to contact the local adult education centre and Spinning Yarns, an art group for isolated older people with the list and see if they are interested in taking any of them up.
Wednesday, 6 January 2010
pence per hour?
Tuesday, 5 January 2010
more snow and cold, but potential for warmth!
We awoke to another covering of snow this morning on top of the compacted ice that has been hanging around since Christmas. It looked pretty so I tottered outside first thing and took this picture before it had been disturbed. It doesn't look much, but it was rather pretty, and eerily quiet at that hour. In lieu of Sunday working Ed and I had planned a half day off today, and were aiming for a walk in the snow, and as he had stuff to do on the computer this morning I went into town to talk to the accountants office where I going to 'curate' a window of art and craft this year. It didn't take me long as it is only around the corner, the white building you can see in the background of the photo! I had planned to set up the first exhibit of the year this morning, but as I needed to get the plinths from the studio to the accountants in our van, which is dodgy in the snow and ice I have put it off until better weather. The window is 10ft wide, 2.5ft deep and taller than me (I'm 5ft 5) so it is an intersting space. The only problem is that the window gets full sun all day long so we need to make sure that any work that goes on display is not going to get sun damaged, so that means that we are unlikely to show textiles, which is a bit of a shame. Hopefully we will be able to take over the front window on the high street too which doesn't get any sun, although instead of being a full plate glass window it is made up of panes about 1ft square, however, I have a cunning plan for that if we can find some funding. After lunch we got a call to say our log delivery had finally arrived, but the man couldn't drop the logs on the drive because of the snow and ice, so he was dropping the pallet on the pavement. That put paid to our afternoon walk, but we got plenty of excercise carrying the logs through to the yard and stacking them. I must admit it was very therapeutic, and most satisfying to see the stack grow and the pallet empty. It was pretty good timing as we only had enough logs left for a few hours in the log burner tonight. We have now turned the heating off again to conserve what oil we have left in the tank to heat the water and we are back to being reliant on long johns, vests, fingerless gloves, plug in USB feet warmers when working on the computer and a good old electric blanket! Talking of which, I'd better go and switch it on!
pence per hour?
Hours worked Monday 4th January 2010, 4 (took half day off for in lieu of Sunday)
Pay received for work, £ nil
Expenditure, £ nil
Total Pay Received, £ nil
Total Expenditure, £42.75
Monday, 4 January 2010
natural inspirations
The cold weather just doesn't seem to let up and the oil and logs are running out, but when you see these beautiful patterns created by nature it makes it all worthwhile. Not sure that Ed thinks so though, these were on his studio windows this morning and his heater had packed up so cold metal tools, cold metal lathe, cold plaster.....cold fingers!
pence per hour?
Hours worked Sunday 3rd January 2010, 8
Pay received for work, £ nil
Expenditure, £ nil
Total Pay Received, £ nil
Total Expenditure, £42.75
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